They really are miraculous things, transistors. Although eventually they'll get too small to function right, thanks to quantum tunnelling and whatnot making them unreliable.
the finfet is dead, long live the ringfet. or ofet. What on earth would you even call that?
I'm looking forwards to the SET (Single Electron Transistor) being figured out. Size limit of 4µm on that - upper limit that is.
It builds on quantum tunnelling to even work in the first place, so such things aren't an issue for it.
[QUOTE=Aircraft;50465268]the finfet is dead, long live the ringfet. or ofet. What on earth would you even call that?[/QUOTE]
FINFets are hardly dead, they've been used in recent intel processors right before the jump to 3D architecture. Also they've been looked for use in space craft and other high reliability systems due to their comparatively more robust construction versus traditional mosfets.
[QUOTE=ace13;50465705]I'm looking forwards to the SET (Single Electron Transistor) being figured out. Size limit of 4µm on that - upper limit that is.
It builds on quantum tunnelling to even work in the first place, so such things aren't an issue for it.[/QUOTE]
It'll be a while until we can get SETs into the commercial space, namely due to the manufacturing of it as well as the reliability standpoint. For a SET/Coluoumb Blockade to work, you need a barrier that has a discrete thickness which for large scale manufacturing becomes hard due to bleed over of the barrier (tolerance of its thickness) leakage, etc.
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